Why fear death? Be scared of living.

Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.

I am quite competitive. In stupid things like card games.

I thought ‘I wonder what will happen if I try and root myself somewhere?‘ Look back over the past eight years.

I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.

Basically what Salomé did with Rilke as a mentor was direct him toward the Russian Orthodox Church, so he could project his love of the divine feminine onto the Virgin Mary. She wanted him to stop the cycle of being disappointed by the ultimate humanity of women. She was like, "You don't want me, you want the Virgin Mary." It's kind of a mystical concept! She also changed Freud's opinion, a little bit too late, about the female psyche, which he had so wrong. If it had been better publicized, it would have changed Western society's perception of the female psyche, too.

Living in L.A., I was completely lost - and I enjoyed it.